Research Design Selection

The experimental study design has many different approaches to carry on and to understand each of these designs one needs to study them in detail. The experimental study design is based on the scientific approach to collect data and it uses naturalistic paradigm in research. Its use is more common in natural and pure sciences where quantitative research is the …

One of the broad way to categorize research designs is to divide them into experimental and non-experimental research. There are various benefits and drawbacks of experimental research design over non-experimental research design and vice versa. There are various situations in which experimental research design can only work while in other situations only non-experimental research design can work. The selection of experimental …

In physical sciences seldom there is any need to have a mixed methods approach to solving the problems, most research done in the physical sciences utilizes quantitative research approach. In social and behavioral sciences the need for using both quantitative and qualitative methods was always there. The rise of mixed methods research design solved the problem to a greater …